Second Annual Sustainable Energy for All Forum - “Financing Sustainable Energy for All”

Participants during the opening plenary

L-R: Roberto Ridolfi, European Commission; Robert Ichord, US State Department; Gil-Hong Kim, Asian
Development Bank; Jonathan Plowe, Bank of America; Anne Valentine Andrews, Chief Operating Officer (COO),
Black Rock Infrastructure Investment Group; Gyan Achahrya, Under-Secretary-General, High Representative for the
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and and Small Island Developing States (SIDS); Mike Eckhart, Citibank; and
Suleiman Al-Herbish, OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID)

Katherine Lucey, Founder and CEO Solar Sister, addressed participants

Participants listening to Camilo Tellez-Mechan, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor

L-R: Jiwan Acharya, Asian Development Bank; Soma Dutta, ENERGIA; Peter Alstone, University of California; Aaron Leopold, Practical Action; and H.R.H. Princess Abze Djigma, CEO, ABZESOLAR S.A.

Participants during the dialogue

L-R: Ruby Sandhu-Rojon, Deputy Regional Director, Regional Bureau for Africa, UNDP; Daniel Schroth, Coordinator, SE4All Africa Hub, African Development Bank; Aboubakari Baba Moussa, Director, Department of Infrastructure and Energy, African Union Commission; and Mosad Elmissiry, Head of Energy Programmes, The NEPAD Agency

Participants during the discussion

The dais during the dialogue

Participants during the dialogue

L-R: Vincent Kitio, UN-Habitat; Olivier Dubois, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); Manlio Coviello, Economic Commission
for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC); Ivan Vera, Secretary of UN-Energy; and Hongpeng Liu, UN Economic and
Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Region (UNESCAP)

Participants and speakers engaged in a discussion at the end of the dialogue

Speakers shared their experiences of financing schemes for energy efficiency.

Participants listening to Kristina Skierka, Campaign Director, Power for All

Mahama Kappiah, Director, Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) Center
for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, addressing participants.

René Castro-Salazar, CO2nsorcio Euroamericano, Costa Rica, addressing participants

L-R: Moderator Susan Kish, Director, Inside Climate News; Ani Valdemoro, Liter of Light; Nawal Al-Hosany, Masdar and the Zayed Future Energy Prize; Katherine Lucey, Founder and CEO, Solar Sister; and Elizabeth Press, IRENA

L-R: Dan Dorner, Senior Analyst, IEA; Vivien Foster, Energy Department, World Bank; Anita Marangoly George, Senior Director, Global Practice on Energy and Extractive Industries, World Bank; and Kandeh Yumkella, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, SE4All

Speakers provided updates on ongoing work by the HIO’s partners.

Speakers presented on the ongoing work of the Energy Access Practitioner Network

The dialogue considered the need to link private sector and impact investors to the work of network members in developing countries.

The dais during the dialogue

The dialogue highlighted progress in the Asia-Pacific region, to achieve the SE4All goals.

The dais during the dialogue

The dais during the dialogue

L-R: Vijay Modi, Columbia University; Albert Cordeiro de Melo, Director-General, Electrical Energy Research Center (CEPEL);
Andrew Cheon, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Keith Benes, Columbia University;
and H.E. Hans Brattskar, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

The dialogue considered how gender can be mainstreamed into energy business models.

L-R: Roberto Ridolfi, European Commission;
Henning Wuester, IRENA; Samba Bathily, Co-Founder of Akon Lighting Africa; Fatima Denton,
Economic Comission for Africa (ECA); Chingiz Orujov, Islamic Development Bank (IDB); and
Daniel Schroth, SE4All Africa Hub Coordinator